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Hi. I am trying to find the parents and birth of George Coysh. His obituary gave his DOB as 18/9/1781. He was a soldier and was a prisoner of war in France as a teenager and then came to live in Topsham and was the school master. He also wrote a book about Spelling and he died in 1840.
I have a hunch that his father was Robert Coysh from Highweek and his mother was Dorothy/Dorothea Squires. This is just a hunch, the dates sort of match (there is a baptism for this George Coysh in Oct 1782) and George called his first son Robert and his daughter Sarah Dorothea. This of course is all circumstantial and I am flailing around looking for proof as opposed to just wanting it to be right!
Please does anyone have any local knowledge that can help me with this.
Thanks

Alison

Hi I am trying to find out who was living at 43 Great Mersey Street, Kirkdale, Liverpool in the 1891 census, without a name I am not sure how to do this. In 1889 this was the address given at the baptism of a 13 year old boy called Thomas Leonard Matthews. Thomas was born in St Austell, his mother lived in Plymouth with her new partner and his father lived in Wales! I can find no reason why Thomas was baptised in Liverpool especially because it appears that both of his biological parents were there despite separating a long time earlier and having new partners and children.
My hope is that if I can find out who was at this address then I can work out what was happening.
Any help would be great
Thanks
Alison

Hi. The family that I am researching have just taken me to Langley Marish in Eton, Bucks. This is a whole new part of the country for me and I am having some problems working my way round it. I am looking for the family of Thomas and Mary Simpson and the only reason I know that they lived here is from a burial record because their grave is with family in Acton and their sons lived on the Strand in London. Mary died in 1823 and Thomas died in 1837.
This is before the 1841 census so I am a bit out of my depth and am hoping that someone with local knowledge can advise me where to look for records in the county.
Any help would be great, I am floundering a bit!
Thanks
Alison

Hi. I think that I may be missing something obvious and I would really appreciates a fresh look at it.

Henry b.1810 and Charles Cooper b.1814 in St Martins in the Fields owned a house at 26 Great Russell Street, the electoral register puts them as joint owners from at least 1851 to 1859.

They were brothers in law of the business man Thomas Bartlett Simpson who ran the Cremorne Pleasure Gardens amongst many other taverns and enterprises and at different points the brothers seemed to swap alcohol licenses with Thomas for the Cremorne Stadium, the Albion, The Garrick's Head and the Adelaide. Their sister Maria died in 1831 and Thomas B Simpson went on to marry again but stayed in business with the brothers.

My problem is that despite having an address and numerous references to them in newspaper articles and electoral registers I can't pinpoint them on any census to get an idea of their families and hopefully of death records. It's such a common surname but I have enough information to make it possible.

Their father was called John and it is possible that their mother was Sophia but those dates don't match very well.

If anyone can see what I am missing I would be thrilled since i am going round in circles.

Thanks
Alison

Hi. I have finally found the baptism of Thomas Simpson b.1826 Westminster and it gives his address as Fairfax Court. I can't locate anything about this address and wondered if anyone else had come across it.

I am assuming it was a lowly address because if it was a decent building then there would probably be remaining evidence of it.

Thanks
Alison